Here is the bite I was on last week. Unfortunately I had to put my boat in storage for the winter but I can confirm this bite is still hot. Grab a ball head jig and a paddletail swimbait, find a wind blown point and hang on! Hit this same spot with a ned and a tub and got skunked. Movement was the key. Never had an easier time catching smallies, and a nice bonus fish too!
Awesome Pete, what a great bite… and close to the metro too. Curious how deep you were?
Last weekend when I was up in Grand Rapids, the second day I caught smallmouth on rock humps with football jigs… but the day before was all on swimbaits. But I was on a super deep, clear lake and the fish were sliding down deeper into 22-28 fow. Had to use 3/4 oz and 1 oz Coolbaits underspins with 5 inch Keitech and Skinny Dippers. Swam it super slow along the bottom but man when they hit it was ferocious!
Good job capturing one of the last nice days of Fall 
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I was getting them in 5-10 ft of water. Keep in mind this lake doesn’t get down past 15 ft. But you’re right, when they hit it they crushed it.
I think you have a great idea to fish shallower lakes in the Fall. They tend to cool down faster, but the fish can’t hide real deep either!
That lake took me 7 trips out there to figure out. No weeds, river fed, shallow and has rock ledges and timber on parts of the shoreline. Caught one the first trip out and then got skunked the next five time out there. Didn’t fish it for four months until last week and found them cruising that point.
I couldn’t quite tell but I think there’s a little trench they are running back and forth in ambushed bait that’s blown over by wind.
“I think there’s a little trench they are running back and forth in…”
Sometimes I think I create the trench from running my lure so many times through the same place “This looks too perfect, they’ve got to be here!”
Nice fish-my 2 cents is to include any info you have in the vid, lake is too small to include a lake name but you could say what type of lake it is, why you fish that type in the fall etc. This is what the IDO team is doing a great job of now (spot on spot id) but it was only after lots of people on this website told them to do it. Keep the vids coming, I would do it but I’m ugly!
Nice fish-my 2 cents is to include any info you have in the vid, lake is too small to include a lake name but you could say what type of lake it is, why you fish that type in the fall etc. This is what the IDO team is doing a great job of now (spot on spot id) but it was only after lots of people on this website told them to do it. Keep the vids coming, I would do it but I’m ugly!
Thanks for the feedback Tim. I do need to get a little better at sticking info in them but to be honest the only reason I fished the lake this year was because I was tipped off to it in the spring. It’s no different than any other lake I’d fish for bass in the spring. This one just happens to have nice smallies. Sometimes there isn’t any deep dive or science to it.
Obviously it took me awhile to figure it out and I almost gave up on it. Glad I didn’t.
Great perseverance,I’ve been tying to focus more on lakes I believe in
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